a moment, when we face great sorrow and longing. TriQuarterly: Could you talk about your craft decisions ... love with this character of my father, and they know how much his death will impact the rest of my ... doing this work because it's ruining my writing voice.” TQ: You’ve talked about how The Night of ...
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people are digging into the meaning of your writing, then they are engaged with it, and they will keep it ... I love, love love. I know it’s an essay because it appeared in Best American Essays. It’s popular, because ... S.L. Wisenberg Monday, January 31, 2011 Craft Essay This is the third in a series of four ...
Alysia Abbott Tuesday, November 11, 2014 Craft Essay I was nineteen years old when I first read ... love me as fully as he did. And he haunted my writing. Ours was the story that always had to be ... memoir, even. But he never wrote our story, and if I didn’t write and publish it, no one would. Then one ...
.” When I first read this passage by Svevo, I was struck by its similarity to a real memoir, Confessions ... Elizabeth Kadetsky Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Craft Essay If creative nonfictionists build a persona, ... a fictional character named Zeno, is as fine a spoof as any of some of memoir’s worst foibles—its whimsy as to ...
What should I do? My response: Write about it as if you were sending it out for consideration. Don’t ... just write about it for therapy—that won’t be enough for you. Write it with an audience in mind. Maybe ... a kind of lyric essay, she writes about female mentorship, about nonbiological mothers (such as her sons’ ...
never be a safe man for anybody or any magazine. July 8th, 1961 Please forgive me for not writing to you ... able to do anything about it. December 23rd, 1961 Along with Bottom Dogs came your brilliant piece in ... a review of the book done by Herbert Read and myself; it was in the Manchester Guardian, and although the ...
exclusively afraid the family I have left would stop loving me if I wrote this book. Fortunately, that’s not ... pretend I was someone who’d already forgiven myself for writing about my family. For making certain ... while writing this particular history. I realized at certain points that if it helped me, maybe it would ...
writing is about patience. The childhood joys of collecting meant that as kids, they were connecting to ... email, if they might try writing about subjects that are hard for them. What matters to them is having ... Renée E. D’Aoust Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Craft Essay I recently took two of those BuzzFeed ...
a Queen-Sized Bed and Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, now in its second edition. A ... Schwartz Issue 141 Winter/Spring 2012 Sunday, January 1, 2012 Craft Essay Who Will Tell My Story? Mimi ... Winter/Spring 2013 Tuesday, January 1, 2013 Craft Essay If You Are Absolutely Certain, I Get Suspicious Mimi ...
matters pertaining to this subgenre. This combination of essay+craft essay+writing exercise is actually ... I asked the writers to indulge me, and they did. The writing exercises take readers one step further by ... memory’s fallibility can be found in Kim Dana Kupperman’s essay when she writes: “So much depends on the ...